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The first animated projection (screening) was created in France, by Charles-Émile Reynaud. On 28 October 1892, he projected the first animation in public, called "Pauvre Pierrot" aka Poor Pete.
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J. Stuart Blackton was a British-American filmmaker, and one of the first to use animation in his films.
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Earl Hurd, patented the cel animation process that dominated the animation industry for the rest of the decade.
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The debut short Fiddlesticks was the first animated film released using the two-strip Technicolor process. It was notable as the first Flip the Frog cartoon for MGM, and one of only two made in color.
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Early digital computer animation was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1960s by Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, Kenneth C. Knowlton, and A. Michael Noll.
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Disney's Twelve Basic Principles of Animation were introduced by the Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation. 1.) Squash and Stretch
2.) Anticipation
3.) Staging
4.) Straight ahead action pose to pose
5.) Overlapping Action
6.) Slow In and Slow Out
7.) Arc
8.) Secondary Action
9.) Timing
10.) Exaggeration
11.) Solid Drawing
12.) Appeal
